Milk bucket and stool



(No Model.)

E. F. DRAKE.

MILK BUCKET AND STOOL. No. 3.32.142. Patented Dec. 8, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD F. DRAKE, OF MILLERS FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

MILK BUOKET AND STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,142, dated December8, 1885.

Application filed July 10, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWARD F. DRAKE, of Millers Falls, county ofFranklin, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improve ment inCombined Milk Bucket and Stool, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, likeletters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention is an improvement upon the invention set forth in UnitedStates Patent No. 271,291, and has for its object to provide a combinedmilk bucket and stool which may be readily adjusted as to height, theseat and bucket being free to rotate when in use as the user of thestool changes position when milking.

In this invention the bucket or pail and its attached parts are the sameas in the said patent, with the exception that the hooks by means ofwhich the pail is attached to the feet are omitted, the bucket or pailherein shown being supplied with a bottom flange or ring adapted toembrace a disk or head having a screw threaded spindle which is passedthrough the top of a low stool.

The drawing shows in elevation a combined milk-bucket and stoolconstructed in accordance with this invention.

The bucket or pail A, combined seat and cover B, bail C, handle D, spoutH, and funnel J, with its attached pipe I, are all as in the saidpatent, so need not be herein described. The pail A at its lower end isprovided with a bottom flange or ring, A, of sufficient depth to embracea bottom plate, a,to support the pail. The bottom flange or ring, A, isslotted, as shown at b, to receive a suitable pin, b, suspended from themain body of the pail A by a chain, b the pin entering holes 2, a seriesof which Serial No. 171,164. (No model.)

are bored in the edge of the disk or head, thus securing the pail firmlythereto, said slot being of sufficient length to present at least one ofthe series of holes, and preferably two, to the view of the operator.The disk or head a is provided with a screw-threaded spindle, c, whichis passed through a threaded hole in the top of a stool, consisting inthis instance of a top piece or seat, 0, and supporting-legs a".

By the employment of a disk or head, a, and screw-threaded spindle itwill be noticed that the pail or bucket A and its seat B may be raisedor lowered, as desired, with relation to the stool, to accommodate theuser of the apparatus, the seat and bucket being at all times free to berotated when in use, which is especially advantageous when a cow stepsbackward or forward or the user of the apparatus changes position.

-I am aware that a milk-bucket has been adjustably attached tosupporting-legs; but such construction I do not broadly claim.

I claim- A milk-bucket having an extended bottom flange or ring, acombined cover and seat, and pin 1), combined with the stool c c" and aninterposed disk or head, a, engaged by the bottom flange of the bucket,and having holes 2, and with the screw-threaded spindle c rigidlyconnected with the disk or head and turning in the stool, allsubstantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWVARD F. DRAKE.

WVitnesses:

DAVID H. HAYTER, MATHEW SHAUGHNESSY.

